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Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-044
Abstract
The collection consists of copy negatives, contact sheets, and digital images of the destruction of the synagogue in Holešov, Czechoslovakia, in 1941, by the Nazis. Also included are images of photographs, postcards, and letters relating to Renata Somers's grandfather, Jakub Michalowski, cantor of the Holešov Jewish community, who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.
Dates:
1941
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-041
Collection Overview
Memo (August 1945) from Philip S. Ballard, Major, Air Corps Assistant Adjutant, Headquarters of the 499th Bombardment Group/Unit Personal Section (San Francisco, SC) re. announcement that Irving Sonenshine had been awarded the Oak-Leaf Cluster to Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross; includes "General Orders No. 27" which describes the Award of the Distinguished Flying Cross and lists the 1945 recipients. Map (January 1945) of the Nagoya-Osaka (Japan); printed at top of map"A-2...
Dates:
1940-1945
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1037
Collection Overview
Collection includes correspondence, organization files, photographs, financial records, minutes, publications, programs.
Collection consists of organizational records of the South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges (SCABBL); bulk is minutes (1948-1997) from annual conventions and quarterly executive committee meetings. Also included are minutes and programs from South Carolina State Conferences (1952, 1953) of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; minutes from District Grand...
Dates:
1940-1997
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0080
Collection Overview
Two bound volumes (primarily mimeographs, last sheets are loose) containing minutes, correspondence, agenda, financial reports, the names of members (individuals and organizations), reports, and related materials to the South Carolina Association of Colleges. Topics discussed at meetings in volume 1 (1945 Feb. 9-1954 April 23) which contains a brief summary about the early years of the Association and volume 2 (1955 May 6-1965 Oct. 29) include the enrichment of curriculas in high school and...
Dates:
1945-1965
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-073
Collection Overview
Judgments of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas levied against debtors (their goods, chattles, lands, and other hereditaments and real estate) for the recovery of moneys owed. Cases include: Ebenezer Simmons, Benjamin Smith, and James Nott versus Nathanael Snow of St. James Goose Creek (1748 Jan. 3); James Reid versus Henry Varnor, a Christ Church Parish planter (1748 Oct. 1); John
McCall versus William Brown (1748 July 5); Maurice Harvey and Robert Philip, Charles Town [Charleston]...
Dates:
1748-1812
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-074
Collection Overview
This collection consists of campaign statement from the organization, a pamphlet and a donation form. The statement of campaign goals is written by Kenneth C. Leskawa. The pamphlet details several arms reduction proposals.
Dates:
1982
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract
The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates:
1912-2005, undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0047
Collection Overview
South-Carolina Society records consist of typewritten, annotated transcriptions of minutes compiled as a W.P.A. project from 1935 to 1937. Minutes of meetings (1827; 1865-1888) concern applications for membership, the establishment of a female academy, revision of society rules, financial matters, assistance to persons who have applied to the Society for relief, and other organizational business.
Dates:
1827-1937
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-070
Collection Overview
The collection consists of a guest list/seating chart and a program for a dinner given by the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina in Charleston on April 8, 1908.
Dates:
1908
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-137
Collection Overview
The collection consists of two programs from the 40th annual meeting of the South Carolina Teachers' Association, and a letter from the executive committee of the organization urging members to attend a meeting in Charleston in 1912.
Dates:
1912
